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“Women Like Us” traces the lives of four women from their undergraduate days at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1950’s through the colorful and varied histories of their boyfriends, jobs, husbands, divorces, friendships, rivalries, failures, and successes to the present. The story of women caught between two generations — too restless for the pieties of the fifties, too early for the revolution of the sixties — it speaks to the hearts of women everywhere.
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“A most welcome addition to that wonderful and satisfying Whatever-Happened-to…? genre.” — Susan Isaacs
“Erica Abeel has taken that hardy weed, the college reunion novel, and made it a flower. A funny, rambunctious book about what it means to be still alive and kicking at an age when women are supposed to be unseen and unheard.” — Erica Jong
“A very engrossing, well-written piece of our romantic history – a generation of women who gave their all for love.” — Rona Jaffe
“A remarkable likeness of women caught on the cusp between convention and change. Erica Abeel has perfect pitch when it comes to catching the soul of a generation.” — Anne Rivers Siddons
“I enjoyed Women Like Us. It describes the impasse faced by several generations of women with wit and humor.” — Marilyn French
“Erica Abeel’s savvy, sexy, and fast-moving book deftly depicts a generation of women trapped by history.” — Hilma Wolitzer
“An old-fashioned good read…A Sarah Lawrence-based variation on The Group…suffused with a persuasive and appealing 50’s sensibility.” — New York Times Book Review
“By the end of this gritty but thoroughly readable and engrossing novel, it’s hard to dispute that there is a lot about these insightful women that is just like us, just like women of every generation.” — Christian Science Monitor
“Marvelous writing…The most remarkable thing about this book is the way it cleverly deals with the choices women make.” — Minneapolis Tribune
“Has everything I love in a novel; good story; interesting, believable characters, vigorous and vivid writing; fabulous descriptions of houses, parties, and clothes (Judith Krantz, eat your heart out); and tantalizing questions about Life.” — New Woman
“Entertaining.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Every woman is sure to recognize something of her own experience in this compelling book.” — Booklist
“Will engross readers…” — New York Daily News
“Vibrant and evocative…Abeel charts her principal’s lives with energy and compassion.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer